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THE FIRST BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>SAMUEL</span><br/> OTHERWISE CALLED<br/> THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 6
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Philistines send back the ark with an offering—The Lord smites and slays Israelites in Beth-shemesh who look into the ark.
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And</span> the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
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And the Philistines called for the priests and the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 18: 10.">diviners</a>, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?  tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
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And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 5: 16 (15-16).">trespass</a> offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
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Then said they, What <i>shall be</i> the trespass offering which we shall return to him?  They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, <i>according to</i> the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague <i>was</i> on you all, and on your lords.
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Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 7: 19.">glory</a> unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
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Wherefore then do ye <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">harden</a> your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh <sup>b</sup><a href="1_sam/6/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 8: 15.">hardened</a> their hearts?  when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
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Now therefore make a new cart, and take two <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR milk cows.">milch</a> kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
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And take the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him <i>for</i> a trespass offering, in a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/8a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR basket, chest, trunk especially for valuables (also v. 11, 15).">coffer</a> by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
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And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, <i>then</i> he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that <i>it</i> <i>is</i> not his hand <i>that</i> smote us; it <i>was</i> a chance <i>that</i> happened to us.
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&#182; And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
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And they laid the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 5: 6.">emerods</a>.
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And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, <i>and</i> went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside <i>to</i> the right hand or <i>to</i> the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.
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And <i>they of</i> Beth-shemesh <i>were</i> reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see <i>it.</i>
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And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where <i>there was</i> a great stone: and they <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR split, cut up.">clave</a> the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And the Levites took down the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the coffer that <i>was</i> with it, wherein the jewels of gold <i>were,</i> and put <i>them</i> on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen <i>it,</i> they returned to Ekron the same day.
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And these <i>are</i> the golden emerods which the Philistines returned <i>for</i> a trespass offering unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
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And the golden mice, <i>according to</i> the number of all the cities of the Philistines <i>belonging</i> to the five lords, <i>both</i> of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR fortified.">fenced</a> cities, and of country villages, even unto the great <i>stone of</i> Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: <i>which stone remaineth</i> unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.
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&#182; And he <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 1: 51; 2 Sam. 6: 7.">smote</a> the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had <sup>b</sup><a href="1_sam/6/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 19: 21.">looked</a> into the ark of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had smitten <i>many</i> of the people with a great slaughter.
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And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God?  and to whom shall he go up from us?
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&#182; And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_sam/6/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ark of the Covenant.">ark</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; come ye down, <i>and</i> fetch it up to you.
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